Cabinet for ice-cream and the like



W. F. BEATTY.

CABINET FOR ICE CREAM AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19, 1917.

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. CABINET FOR ICE-CREAM AND THE LIKE.

To all 10/207771 it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, WILLIAM F. BEATTY, a citizen of the United States of America, and

a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of sheet oi drawings, in which latter, Figure 1 is a a. vertical cross-section, taken centrally from front to rear showing the device closed with the exception of the partially open lid" leading to the ice-packed chamber and the empty can ready for its supply of cream, when its independent orifice and coveringlid have first been thrown open, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device showing it as it appears when entirely closed and ready for use.

The casing of the cabinet is composed of a front-wall 1; side-walls 2; back-wall 3; bottom 4;; and a top 5, the latter having a sloping fore-portionfront 6.

7 indicates short supporting-blocks provided at the four corners of the bottom 4, so as to elevate the latter the desired distance above the fioor'.

8 indicates a lining or facing of cork or the like provided on the inner faces of the walls 1, 2, 3 and bottom 4 of the casing, as best shown in Fig. 1. usual purpose of insulation, the ice 9, in broken form, being packed within it and to surround the can 10, except its open orifice or mouth, also as best shown in Fig. 1. The cork-lining thus forms an insulated chamber for the ice whereby the cream in the can 10 is kept or preserved in the congealed or frozen state for serving. 1

An auxiliary-partition 11 is provided in the ice-chamber at an inclination so as to leave an air-space 12 beneath its lower face and. to support the broken ice above said air-space and thus save in the ice supply which would not be of any benefit in that Specification of Letters Patent.

This lining is for the.

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Application filed March 19, 1917. Serial Nah 155,893.

part of the box or casing represented by said air-space 12.

The can 10 is placed in the ice-chamber at an inclination and within a jacket 13, the latter shown as contacting at its lower edge with the cork-lining and having its upper edge flanged, as shown at M so as to rest in air-tight contact with a shoulder 15 made in the orifice or opening 16 of the sloped front 6 of the casing top.

A filling ring or gasket 17 is provided within said orifice, 16, its internal diameter corresponding to that of the jacket 13 and its external diameter being practically that of the flange 1a, which latter it covers and thus forms an air-tight joint above said flange in the sloping top 6.

18 indicates a lid for the said orifice in said sloping top 6. This lid slideslor rotates at an inclination downwardly on the pivot bolt or pin 19 toward the server, the said pin passing through the thin portion 20 of the lid after extending outwardly from the lower edge of the said sloped portion 6 of the casing top, as best shown in Fig. 1. A handle 21 is provided on the thick bodyportion of the lid 18, diametrically opposite the outer end of the pivot bolt or pin 19 so as to conveniently rotate or rotatably slide said lid to and from covering-position over the entrance to the can 10 and its contents.

The jacket 13' forms a convenient receptacle for the can and to provide for the ready insertion or removal thereof, and whereby the ready replacing of filled cans or empty ones may be effected. Suitable beads 10 are provided at the upper end of can 10 for the sloping fore-portion 6 of the said top 5,

and 23 is a lid adapted to fit within the orifice 22, hinged 'at 24 at its rear edge and provided near its fore edge with a handle 25. The fore edge of lid 23 is sloped, as shown at 26, and the fore edge of the opening 22 being also sloped, to correspond as shown at 27, provides a tight joint at said foreedge of the lid. Through the orifice 22 the ice or other retrigerating agent or material is placed within the cabinet and suitably packed so as to surround the jacket 13 that contains the ice-cream can. The orifice 22 forms a man-hole through which the. inte- I rior of the cabinet can be packed as well as unpacked and kept clean and otherwise sanitary. The packing and ,cleaning can be effected in the ice-chamber without; opening the lid 18 of thecream-can orifice so that the cream-chamber is protected against the entrance of ice or foreign matter, especially when'it is desired to repack the cabinet at anytime that there is a supply of cream'in the can.

The entrances 16 and 22 to the ice-cham ber and to the cream-chamber, respectively are thus entirely independent of each other and the ice is not open or subject to the melting effects of the outer warm atmosphere when its lid 23 is closed and at the time or numerous times that the other lid 18 is open for access to the interior of the cream can 10. the use of my invention, and the mounting of the, cream-receptacle at, an inclination within the ice-chamber enables the server of the cream to have. access thereto in a more convenient or natural position, whereby the service of the cream is facilitated and the entrance of the arm, with the serving-implement, in to the cream-can is at an angle forwardly and downwardly from the person so that the cream can be removed at the same angle, which is far better 'than reaching down into a perpendicular can that is remote-from the person and more difficult to reach the cream as well as to remove it.

It will be observed that there will be no lost refrigeration while dispensing the cream in this air-tight cabinet, and also, no interference with the service while packing the ice in the cabinet,the rear orifice 22 being far enough remote from the fore openlng leading to the cream-can so that the packing of the ice-chamber can-be effected by another person, if desired, while the server of the cream has the lid 18 open, which is important in the speedy service of cream, especially where a number are to be served. v i

In summing up, it will be seen-that the cabinet is a sanitary one; a great saving of ice and other means of refrlgeration 18 possible; a material savlng of time in packing is also provided for; an exchange of cans,

without removing the cabinet top, can be readily made at any time; and no direct cover is needed on the cream-can itself while packing the ice-chamber,such as is needed in connection with the many kinds of ice cream cabinets already 1n use, as the ice in other cabinets 1s packed in the chamber around the can through the same orifice that access is had to the can, there being no other orifice but that single one in the cabinet to reach the ice-chamber.

To remove the jacket 13 from the cabinet, I

These are important features in" it is necessary to open the lid 18 and then withdraw the tight-fitting gasket or ring 17,

but that is seldom necessary and practically only whenlit is desired to clear the icedraw off any fluid above its level.

An ice-cream cabinet comprising an icecontaining chamber directly surmounted by a single cover or top that partakes of a horizontal rear-portion and a sloping fore-portion, an ice entrance or inlet-supply orifice provided in the said horizontal rear-portion of the cover or top and having a suitable hinged lid, an independent orifice made in the said sloping fore-portion-of the cover or top arranged forwardly-adjacent to and alined with said ice-inlet orifice in the horizontal rear-portion and provided with a suitable swinging or hinged-lid, an inclined cylindrical jacket or chamber having a flanged rim and directly embedded in or surrounded by the ice-content of the said ice-containing chamber and removably-sup ported from the said independent orifice in the sloping fore-portion of the cover or top, and a lidless ice-creamcan or receptacle removably inserted and held in the said iceembedded inclined jacket, the whole being arranged and combined whereby the icechamber may be filled with broken or cracked ice to surround or embed the said jacket except its mouth-end while the adjacent orifice leading to the ice-cream can is either open or closed and the i'ce cream removed from its container-can while the icechamber is elther open or closed or the 108- cream can placed into or replaced from using-position in said supporting and iceseparating jacket in the said ice-containing chamber independent of the ice-chamber and neither the ice-cream can nor the icechamber subject to interference with each other beneath the said single cover or top and more especially the ice-cream itself protected from the salt-sprinkled ice-content of the ice-chamber when said ice-content is to be replenished from time to time in the icecontaining-chamber, substantially as herein shown and described.

WILLIAM F BEA'ITY. 

